“The animal was exhausted, was diagnosed with rickets and a damaged hind paw,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
He recalled that from January next year it will be forbidden to keep exotic animals at home, and this will simplify the work with such cases.
Earlier, the police organized a check in connection with the discovery of a lion cub in one of Moscow garages.
According to the Interior Ministry, the owner of the garage, a 32-year-old Muscovite, could not provide documents for the animal.